E3 2017: quick links

It’s E3 2017 season and you know what that means – or, by gum, our SEO is getting so good it pulls in muggles who have no idea what’s going on. In which case, hello! Sorry about this.

What E3 2017 means is games. Games, games, games. Trailers for games. News about games. Anticipated games. Totally surprising games. Games everybody expected and still cheer madly for when they arrive. Games nobody asked for but there, that’s the games industry for you.

This year’s show kicked off on Saturday with EA’s now annual EA Play event, and will continue Sunday with Microsoft’s Xbox showcase and Bethesda’s livestream. Ubisoft and Sony follow up on Monday, and that’s the worst of it over before the E3 2017 show doors even open on Tuesday.

On top of these big E3 2017 conferences there will be a stack of livestreams from Nintendo, YouTube and Twitch, filled with reveals and showcases – so we’re expecting big heaps of news and trailers and games, games, games, all week long.

Check with our full E3 2017 livestream schedule if you’d like to watch for yourself, but otherwise bookmark this page and check back regularly – we’ll keep rounding up the biggest news, trailers and of course games from E3 2017.

Need for Speed Payback was another highlight. Racing fans are tremendously excited about the latest from Ghost Games and after seeing those trailers we can’t blame ’em. Go put them in your eyeballs immediately.

There was tremendous social buzz around EA’s new IP, A Way Out. From the creator of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, it a gritty prison break adventure and can only be played in couch co-op. Amazing. Definitely check out the gameplay trailer at the very least.

We were massively excited to get a first look at Anthem, BioWare’s new IP, but unfortunately it was only very brief. The full reveal is coming during Microsoft’s show. (Don’t worry, PC and PS4 fans – the game isn’t Xbox exclusive.) Still, the teaser is very exciting – giant mechs! yeah!

Remembering that Mojang is first-party now, Minecraft is getting a big new update bringing the various non-Java editions into line with identical features, and opening cross-play between them. Only Xbox One and Switch will benefit on consoles, which is an amazing Sony snub. There will also be a big new graphics update and HD graphics DLC, and the Windows 10 and Xbox One X builds will benefit the most.

Sony kept it relatively short this year, which surprised us. Most of the announces were for VR games, with the PlayStation Nation mostly directed to games releasing this year or in early 2018 rather than the years-distant stuff Sony normally throws at us during E3. There was some of that, though – we can’t escape it – and firm release dates were thin on the ground.

Next up was Days Gone, showcased with gameplay including a zombie bear. Sony then left first-party titles momentarily to announce Monster Hunter World, which brings the franchise home to PlayStation after too long away.